henry's first ER visit...

starting a few weeks ago, henry has done this terribly concerning thing

where he goes from being fine one minute

to arching his back like crazy, getting really upset and not really breathing

and even turning blue the next minute

and it lasts probably 1-3 minutes

i've almost called an ambulance on more than one occasion

but it's pretty short from start to finish 

and after the episode, he's upset but back to normal

and he stays alert the whole time

so i can't tell if i'm crazy or it's an emergency

thursday night when he did it, it was one of his worst episodes

and we took him to the ER right away 

they checked his vitals first thing

and since they were good, they let us sit in the waiting room for over an hour

as if it wasn't an emergency

 we eventually saw a Dr who thought it sounded like reflux 

but he doesn't have all the signs of that

and the turning blue thing is not a normal sign of reflux

but rather than doing a full work up of blood and x-rays, 

he told us to go to our regular pediatrician the next day

so friday we went to the pediatrician and he thinks it's reflux, too

so he prescribed medicine that will hopefully help

although so far it doesn't seem to

and he said if in a few weeks (after we've moved) he doesn't improve

and/or keeps having these episodes, we should talk to our new Dr about home monitoring

so hopefully things improve soon

it's so hard to say if this is related to his milk protein allergy or not

henry is a really fussy baby and i'm sure he's in pain a lot

it doesn't surprise me if he has reflux but i'd like it taken care of sooner than later

and i hope this medication starts working